Our Baby's Gone To College

Well, today we got Jennifer to Cedar City and settled into her dorm room at SUU. She's rooming with Lindy, a girl from our ward and is excited to begin her college career. She's not excited, however to be a freshman again. She hates those feelings. Almost as much as the "first day of school picture" feelings as indicated in the second picture. Mom kept it together pretty well throughout the process and did very minimal crying. At least when anyone else was around.
Jennifer and I took one car in the morning with one load while Mom went to work with the other car load of stuff. When she got off, she headed to Cedar and met up with us, and we moved the rest up to the room. After all kinds of fun (for Mom and Fif) arranging things in the room and finding places for almost everything to live, we said goodbye and left her to it.

Jennifer is pleased with her new bed set...thank you Grandma Anderson for making the quilt!

In all fairness to Jennifer, she was antsy to get to a mandatory meeting when we were taking this picture. She had also had some last minute issues with a non-functioning room key, but Mom had to have the back to school picture.

The weirdness of not having any kids at home to worry about will only last for a week until Kimberly gets home next Thursday. But then the normality of her being home (when it finally feels normal) will end when we take her back up to Rexburg in September and we will be empty nesters for real. sigh.